stick up

present singular third person sticks up · participle present sticking up · participle past stuck up · past stuck up

1. idiomatictransitiveTo rob at gunpoint.

   I think they intend to stick up the bank.

   2 more examples

   What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.

   2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27

   Listen up, at around 2300 we received multiple 911 calls from the 4U Gas Station at 5th and Vandrake in Southside, we believe this to be a stick up robbery with multiple armed suspects.

   2023, VOID Interactive, Ready or Not (video game), scene: Mission brief, level/area: Thank You, Come Again

2. idiomaticintransitiveTo be prominent; to point upwards.

   No matter how much I brush it, my hair always sticks up.

3. intransitiveTo speak or act in defence (of).

   Don't let them push you around, stick up for yourself.

4. intransitiveTo defy, to confront, to stand up to.
5. intransitiveTo maintain a commitment (as, to a proposition or role)
6. transitiveUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, up. To put or post up by sticking.

   Stick up the postcard with a bit of tape.